17 Nov

Instalasi Alfresco EA + MySQL pada Windows

Pastikan Anda telah memiliki installer dari Alfresco Untuk proses instalasi, Berikut screen shot proses instalasi Alfresco EA 201609 pada Windows :
1. Pemilihan bahasa. Silahkan pilih Bahasa Inggris yaitu “English – English” lalu klik tombol “OK”
Pilih Bahasa
 
2. Setup Alfresco community, Klik tombol “Next”
Setup Alfresco Community
 
3. Untuk tipe Instalasi, Pilih “Advance-Configures server ports and services properties” lalu klik “Next”
Installation Type
 
4. Pilih Aplikasi yang diinginkan, mungkin anda dapat mengikuti gambar di bawah :
Select Components
 
5. Pilih di path mana untuk menyimpan folder alfresco yang diinstal. Anda dapat menyimpannya di C:\Alfresco
Installation Folder
 
6. Masukan konfigurasi database seperti gambar di bawah ini, setelah itu klik “Next”
Database Configuration
 
7. Untuk konfigurasi tomcat, masukan ip address dan port untuk tomcat. Contoh di bawah adalah ip address untuk localhost :
Tomcat Port Configuration
 
8. Masukkan port untuk FTP Server : 21
Alfresco FTP Port
 
9. Masukan port untuk remote command yang berisi 50500 seperti gambar di bawah ini :
Alfresco RMI Port
 
10. Masukan password Admin untuk aplikasi Alfresco-nya
Admin Password
 
11. Masukan port untuk SharePoint, Port : 7070
Alfresco SharePoint Port
 
12. Masukan port untuk Libreoffice yaitu 8100
LibreOffice Server Port
 
 
13. Pilih tipe konfigurasi untuk startup tomcat dan databasenya, Anda dapat memilih Auto jika ingin memulai secara otomatis. Atau Manual jika ingin secara manual
Service Startuo Configuration
 
14. Persiapan untuk instalasi Alfresco, Silahkan klik “Next” untuk melanjutkannya.
Persiapan Instalasi
 
Ready To Install
 
15. Setelah instalasi selesai, klik tombol “Finish”
Completing Installation
 
16. Copy file mysql-connector-java-5.1.18-bin.jar ke dalam folder “C:alfresco\tomcat\lib”
 
Alfresco versi 5.0 tidak menggunakan MySQL lagi dalam installer bundled-nya, tetapi telah memilih PostgreSQL sebagai DBMS-nya.
Untuk menjalankan service Alfresco, click : Start – All Programs – Alfresco Community - Alfresco Community Service - Start Alfresco Community service.
Atau dapat dilakukan melalui Run - services.msc. Akan terdapat sebuah service Alfresco. Klik kanan, start | stop | restart.
Dengan menjalankan service Alfresco, maka kita dapat mengakses Alfresco web client dari browser dengan alamat: http://ipserver:8080/share
 
Form Login Alfresco
 
Pada form login, masukkan username Admin serta password yang sebelumnya sudah di-setting pada saat instalasi Alfresco.
12 Dec

Enterprise Content Management Expert in Indonesia

enterprise-content-management-system-illustration Enterprise Content Management System is a digitized content/information and document management process to support a company to fulfill and reach its goal of a business process. A company needs to manage its information/content effectively to increase its working productivity. Enterprise Content Management System capable of providing that process for a company. ECM, generally, strongly integrated with Document Management System (DMS).

Manage your content to be more OrganizedSecureEasy

Below are several examples of content/information and document related challenge in business :
  • The non-structured information or content related to the business process causes confusion. It also needs to be redone, wasting more time and effort.
  • Difficulty to find content/information based on date, the user, or content type.
  • It takes too much time to spread the information. In the worst case, the information even isn’t spread.
  • The storage at the office is incapable to contain the amount of content/information in a physical form.
To solve these problems, a company needs an integrated system that provides functionality.

Enterprise Content Management System  has these features/functionalities :

  • Document Management System (DMS): For handling a company’s or organization’s document,
  • Collaboration: Collaboration in the ECM can be facilitated through an online portal/website.
  • Workflow: Delegating a task to a certain user that is wanted and improving job efficiency.
  • Web Content Management: To manage, create, and deliver the content easily.
  • Record Management: Simplify the storing and searching for the content/information, which is considered important for a company or organization.
Enterprise Content Management System increases the information flow within the company that will improve productivity. ECM helps an organization to manage information and content into a more structured form. The benefits of using Enterprise Content Management System:
  • A structured content knowledge storing system,
  • Increase the speed and accuracy of the information distribution,
  • Improving productivity in office activities,
  • Minimizing the information/content lost,
  • Suitable for collaboration purpose,
  • Accessible from anywhere and anytime you need it,
  • Providing better control over the certain information/content access for a specific user, so the risk of information/content leak will be decreased,
  • Easy to trace the audit result of an information/content,
  • Simplify and speed up specific information/content searching processes.
One of the tools/systems of Enterprise Content Management System is Alfresco. Alfresco is the open-source licensed Enterprise Content Management System.

Alfresco as a Challenger in Magic Gartner Quadrant

In 2019, in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Alfresco is in the same quadrant as challenger from other solutions like Laserfiche, SER, NewServer, etc.
Alfresco is equipped with a complete set of features that give solutions for the company’s information/content-related problems.

The Implementation of ECM System Features within Alfresco:

  • Advanced Search Functionality. Enterprise Content Management System can search based on the keyword or the essence of the information/content.
  • Easy to Use. Users won’t have problems using Alfresco, because it has a similar design to explorer (File Explorer on Windows and Finder on Mac), which they are using every day. Moreover, users can easily upload a document by using the drag and drop method.
  • Workflow Engine. Creating a task for a specific user for revision, review, approval, and disapproval purpose on information/content or document effectively.
  • Google Docs, MS Office, LDAP, and Active Directory Integrated.
  • Versioning. Adding the information/content or document version automatically and save the history log of that document version.
  • Role, Permission & Security Settings. We can add a specific permission setting on the information/content for specific users, using Enterprise Content Management System.
  • Collaboration Site. You can share documents, calendars, discussion, blogs, links, and datalist. With the Collaboration Site feature, you can easily spread the information faster and with better accuracy.
  • Expired Document Reminder. A notification will appear if it detects an expired information/content. Notification will be displayed through the main page dashboard of Alfresco or via email.
  • Integrate with other applications using CMIS Web Services.
  • Comment/Discussion Feature. Users can participate to develop an information or business process by using the comment/discussion feature.
Softbless has helped many company to manage their content to well organized, efficient by using Alfresco as ECM
Softbless is ECM implementation expert in Indonesia. Feel free to ask us and get the best deal about ECM Solution.

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12 Dec

Document Management - ALFRESCO

Document Management - ALFRESCO

Document Management System (DMS) is a system that used to manage the life cycle of documents in each phase. DMS handles documents electronically, from the document is still in draft form, reviewed, published, stored, and eventually deleted/destroyed. Document Management System is a component of Enterprise Content Management System (ECM).

Process your documents efficientlyeasilymore secure

Some concepts/functionalities of Document Management System :

  • Metadata. Metadata is information/propety owned by each document. For example, if we have a document type "Receipt", then the metadata of the receipts are: amount, payment date, receiver
  • Workflow: Collaboration in DMS facilitated through the workflow. Collaboration can be a form of assignment or approval. Assignment workflow : an employer requires his/her to revise the report. Approval example : staff requests leave to be approved by superiors
  • Versioning: every update of a document can be tracked. DMS save the history of each version of the document
  • Security: security feature is a mandatory feature of a DMS. Users need to be able to restrict other users' access rights to documents
  • Searching: If company already has thousands of documents, then this feature will greatly facilitate user searching to obtain the necessary documents.
Some problems :
  • The difficulty of searching for a document, especially searching based on some parameters. For example: looking for documents created within a certain period and by users, with certain descriptions, document numbers and specific projects
  • Difficulty determining documents with the latest version because every employee has a different document naming format, and we often do not know who holds the latest version.
  • To get a physical document, requires considerable effort, starting from finding out the position of the physical document, retrieve it, and deliver it to people who need it.
  • The amount of office space and file cabinets, is not proportional to the high growth of documents. It would be better if the office space is used for something else, rather than just being a document storage.
  • High risk of losing documents. Physical documents are vulnerable to damage, especially if a natural disaster results in companies losing documents as an important asset
  • Security, permissions for each document are very specific. We need system to handle the security.
Above problems can be handled if the company has a Document Management System (DMS). Huge number of documents owned by company/organization needs to be handled by an integrated system.

The advantages of Document Management System :

  • Increased productivity - increased productivity can occur in searching for documents and document broadcast
  • Cost efficiency - using the Document Management System, companies can reduce the paper purchase
  • Robust Security - electronic documents can be stored in a centralized
  • Accelerate access to the required documents, each user can directly open the DMS application and access the required documents according to the permissions they have
  • Speed up document distribution and sharing
  • Access the required documents from anywhere, as long as there is an intranet or internet connection connected to the DMS server
  • Set permissions and security. We can specify which group or user who has access to view, read, update/edit, and delete a folder/document.
  • Tracing Audit Trail history of document changes
  • Make searching to be easier. If we forget where the document storage folder is, we can rely on the search engine owned by DMS.
  • Manage working document easily
  • Increase collaboration speed in company
Alfresco is Document Management System application that could fulfill our company requirements.

Alfresco is robust DMS

In 2017, in Gartner MQ,  Alfresco is in same quadrant with solutions from IBM, Oracle dan Laserfiche
Alfresco features for your document processing :
  • Centralized Document Storage: store company documents centrally.
  • User friendly. Alfresco's user experience is made to resemble File Explorer (Finder on Mac, Windows Explorer in Windows) that is used daily, so users will be familiar with the Alfresco interface.
  • Online Preview for documents and media files.
  • Audit Trail Log. Track user activity from login, logout, view, add, edit and delete documents
  • Versioning: each version of the document can be tracked automatically by Alfresco. There is no need to manually name a new version of a document.
  • Link (relation) between documents. With this feature, users can trace the relationship between documents.
  • Drag and Drop Upload
  • Integrate it with your scanner
  • Digital Signature
  • Multiple file uploads. Upload multiple documents at one time into Alfresco.
  • Role, Permission & Security Settings
  • The Comment feature allows users to discuss the document
  • Workflow feature for document revision, review and approval, we can also create custom workflows for specific business processes in our company
  • Check in & Check Out to lock documents while editing.
  • Search features. With Alfesco we can do searches based on certain parameters (metadata), or full text searching (searching the contents of documents)
  • Download with watermark stamp.
  • Integration with LDAP, Active Directory, Ms Office and Google Docs
  • Native Mobile Application, available for iOS and Android platforms for default fatures.
  • Custom Metadata or Document properties. Metadata. Metadata is information / information held by each document. For example if we have a document of type Receipt, then the metadata of the receipt is: the amount of payment, date of payment, statement, recipient
  • Integration with other applications through the CMIS web service.
  • Taxonomy : Category & tagging
  • Expired Document reminder for documents that have a validity period.
  • Reminder will be sent as an e-mail or can be viewed as a dashlet.
  • Automation (Rules) for triggering certain actions based on several selected criteria.
Alfresco is a Document Management System application. Alfresco is open source licensed, and has become the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management category, and has been implemented in more than 5000 organizations.
Softbless has experience and competence in business processes, change management, implementation and development of document management systems in Indonesia, using Alfresco.
Softbless, Indonesia, provide the service implementation, installation, customization, support and training for Alfresco Document Management System.

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20 Nov

New Features in Alfresco Ver.4.2a

In the second week of October 2012, Alfresco launched the new Alfresco Community Edition, Alfresco 4.2a. Some new features available in Alfresco 4.2a, which are:

1. Multi-File zip file processing and quick sharing
This feature will help the user use “share” command and sharing their file which are being preview. In this process, this feature will create a short link to sharing files automatically. The users are also used multiple selection of their file to process downloading. This process also supported by single zipped package.

2. Enhancing in Share Dashlets
Some new features in this facility are improvement in liquid layouts which are more attractive, illustration of selection file address in image subcategory, and improvement in lightbox facility layout.

Dashlets New Layout
Dashlets New Layout
A New Dashlets Tasks:
A new task in dashlets “filter all” previously, now in Alfresco 4.2a, this tasks is dived into two categories, “active” and “completed” category. Additional task is adding the number of page.

Editing the content:
Instead of filtering task, there is dashlet conversion feature. These features will split loading process, in order to increase displaying speed of dashboard initial process.

3. Better integration to google docs
Now the user in Alfresco 4.2a are able to create and edit their google docs document in google docs service, easier and better integrated. The user will used directly this system in real time and user activity in google docs will be recorded.

4. Springsurf 1.2
This feature will help the user clearing their internet cache. The user no needs to clear their recorded activity after they have internet browsing (using “clear internet cache”). Alfresco 4.2a users directly get this feature when they have installed this new Alfresco edition. Therefore, the user no needs to busy clearing internet temporary cache regularly.

In addition, this feature is also help the user saving their drive resources more capacity in their hardware. Some files are recorded as temporary files in their hardware when they perform browsing the internet, a great way of saving resources reducing.

Furthermore, having RemoteClient feature configuration, some complete configuration are able to perform. Some of these complete configurations are: timeouts, buffer sizes, setting on http proxy, tcp configuration, setting on white/black list of unsecure HTML when editing wiki page, and inline preview of html. 

5. The new dashboard dashlets
Site searching:
This site searching feature of dashlets allows the user to find fts-Alfersco search and directly can see a previewing page in the result of site searching. The users are also able to configure previewing only related sites. The picture below is a preview of the result site searching features

Dashlets of Site Search

Dashlets of Site Search

Search collection:
This feature is similar to site search, however query in this features of saved search previously only addressed to site manager. Only site manager is able to access this dashlet control panel. Where, filtering process which only able performs by site manager, support in report organizing. Therefore, fts-alfresco search syntax is fully supported the user, especially to site manager. Dashlets title is also changed into specific title from control panel, and then the user will easily recognize what dashlet is reporting on.


Sample preview of saved search feature
Sample preview of saved search feature

My Discussion:
Dashlet dashboard is also able to display recent posting in the forum. Consequently, the user will able to discuss, create, and reply the posting quickly. 

My Discussion dashlets
My Discussion dashlets

6. More variations in media galley or document library
The earlier version of image preview for gallery view features, now available in document preview for document library. This new feature is more interesting and attractive. This new view is support standard feature for document library, such as multi file selection, uploading process by drag and drop technique, and also additional new feature, which is setting on document size view directly, thus the view is dynamically view, especially in image size changing view in document library. 


Preview of Media Gallery
Preview of Media Gallery

7. Desktop dropbox synchronization or your enterprises
Alfresco is not only release their new feature for community user, but also release Desktop Sync Client in Alfresco Community 4.2a, Alfresco Enterprise or Alfresco cloud. Configuration in dropbox service will be easily recognized by Alfresco user, mainly the new feature of Alfresco Desktop Sync.